Being able to swap perspectives in this overarching stories let me review characters with more nuance. Maybe the wizard isn't a Saturday morning cartoon villain, but a broken, misguided man looking for one last chance to erase his regrets? What if a dragon is young enough to question if it values its traditions or the nascent bonds it forges with misfits? And what if all of these pirates and scoundrels we keep running into had hearts of gold? What if cycles weren't circles but ascending spirals? I enjoyed reading through and thinking about this!